dv6t QE random pauses while running

Hi,

I've had my HP Pavilion DV6T-QE for about a year and a half now and over the last few weeks I've come across an issue with it. While playing games, like League of Legends, or even just browsing the web or making a Word document, what is shown on screen just freezes up and doesn't do anything. I can still move my mouse around but nothing responds. Then after a second or two (possibly more in case of gaming), everything on screen catches up to what I was doing. This happens unexpectedly, and I have done little to change my laptop in terms of drivers before and after this issue started occurring. The only thing that might cause an issue was maybe roughly putting my laptop back into my book bag after class one day. The day after that was when I started noticing the issue. It started with only gaming, but then stuff like Pidgin and Word would show this issue. Any help? Thanks


Specs:
Intel Core i7 2630QM
8GB RAM (around half in use at any given time)
AMD Radeon HD 6770M (running LeshCat 12.10 WHQL drivers)


I'm running the system right now with an SSD and it seems to be better but I have no idea. I'm hoping it really isn't a hard drive issue since I would rather not replace that. It could be heat, but my cpu monitors are showing only around 140 F temperatures. I also thought HP put in software that stops the hard drive from spinning if it sense movement but I'm not sure anymore haha.

Edit: Okay I think it does have something to do with that hard drive. I can game fine with the SSD inside it.

 

Enter safemode and use Leshcat issue resolver to modified the file and change TDR value to 7/3. Works for me.

 

Remove HP ProtectSmart software if you are using only the SSD.

 

Tried that. Didn't help. Still freezes in game. Could be a cpu thing since it happens in other apps too.

I did a clean install of windows 7 so I didn't have that. Is that what protects the hard drive if it's shaken?

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i had similar problem where screen frame rate suddenly crawled in both 2d or 3d enviroment and leshcat tdr fixes fixed it.

useless for SSD since there's no spinning platter.

 

It's not a crawl. It's a total freeze then it skips to where it should be. Like say it froze when I'm typing something. When it unfreezes it'll be at the point where it should be if it didn't freeze at all.

The problem has gotten even worse. It just totally locked up and I couldn't do anything. The task bar disappeared and nothing was on my screen other than pidgin. There was also this watermark saying test mode, windows 7, build 7601. I found how to disable test mode online. Also a lot of my programs keep not responding. Like Firefox and pidgin.

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Sounds like a RAM issue to me. Try to start the sytem with one stick only. (try this in every combination: 1st stick to slot1, to slot2 or 2nd stick to slot1, to slot2)

 

I'll try that later tonight but I ran a RAM test through the BIOS and some other RAM checker and they both came up clean.

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Okay it isn't a RAM issue. Both RAM sticks worked fine in either slot. So now it's down to cpu heat or hdd. I think I'll just get a new hdd since replacing with a ssd seemed to work...

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My next tip is also the hdd. If the memory is ok.